Bayi Town

Brief Introduction of Bayi Town

With the assistance of our country, Bayi Town,the capital of Nyingchi, develops at a fast speed. It has been a new town with perfect service facilities and convenient transportations. Bayi Town is located at the northern shore of Niyang River, 50 kilometers away from the convergence of Brahmaputra and Niyang River. Bayi Town is flatterrain, at the altitude of 3000 meters, with moderate climate aboriginal forest, and abundant rainfall. Bayi Town has an urban area of 8 square kilometers, with a resident population of 16,000 and transient population of several thousand. The place used to be called "Lariga", with few villages. Since 1960, people there began to reclaim wasteland and start from scratch, a plateau town gradually rose. In the latest twenty years, the town is changing with each passing day. More than ten years ago, there were only two clay roads, looking like a big village, but now, it has been a small city. Many fundamental facilities, such as: urban road, water system, electricity, residence are perfect. With the support of the buddy provinces, Guangdong Road, Hong Kong Road and Xiamen Square were built, all of which make the plateau pearl more bright.Bayi Town and the nearby regions are the place of displaying industrial achievements of Tibet, the department of electric power, wool spinning, building materials, printing, agricultural machinery, wooden process and grain and oil are all distributing here. It is also the art research base of Tibet. Since 1970, many teach and research institutes and schools were built here.

Scenic Spots of Bayi Town

At Bayi Town, there are many famous scenic spots, Xiapudongbing, Rijimucuo Lake and Giant Berlin. 40 kilometers southeast of Bayi Town, there is the Bangna Village, where grows a mulberry King, with an age of more than 1600 years. The mulberry has a height of 7.04 meters and diameter of 13 meters. It is said to be planted by Songtsen cadres and Princess Wen Cheng. Bajie Village, more than 10 kilometers away from Bayi Town, grows some precious and special cypress trees, which covers 10 hectares. They are also called the Tibetan giant cypress, among these trees; one is well-known as the King of giant cypress and alive cultural relics, with the Height of 50 meters, diameter of 58 meters, at the age of 2500 years old. Heading western ward, going through Pula, then you will get to the convergence of Brahmaputra and Niyang River. The river is board and looks like a mirror. You may travel by ship, with a downstream of 50 kilometers, and then you will get to the starting point of Brahmaputra Grand Canyon, Milinxianpai County.